The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-23
BILL NYE ON HOUsE-CLEANING
Specific Instructions IN Artistic
Whitewashing and Household
Decoration

! tiers of general interest to housekeepers,
coming from one who understands
fully what he is talking about, may be
beneficial. If they are received in the
proper spirit my object will have been
attained. All I care for is TO furnish all
the information l can and do all the
good caa. Life is made up of these
little acts of-kindness, and to be Wellin-
formed, and then to be able to spread
| that information around all over the
country in such manner IS to anchor
ate the condition of our race, is most
fortur ate thing for the possessor and a
great boon to those who may be the re-
cipients of the information.
A good, durable WhiteWasS may be
made by slakitg pure lime with salt
and a light solution of water. Mix
while cold and stir gently while boil
ing so that it will not burn on. Let it
stand ten minutes and then carefully
skim it. Ii it does not settle readily
drop in the yelk of an egg. DO not
put glue in your whitewash in order to
make it stick. 1t is great mistake TO
unite glue or baking powder with white
wash that is to. be used on the walls or
lIceiling of parlor.
A gallon of milk will improve large
quantity of whitewash, but the cream
may be taken off before the milk is
used. To apply whitewash on g ceiling
is not q difficult process, and many
people pay professional when they
might do it equally well themselves.
Take whitewash brush'of about the
medium height and dip it in the liquid
preparation. Next carefully remove
| the surplus by gently pressing the
brush against the side of the pail. You
can.then stand on the piano and apply
the solution to the ceiling, a little at
time. If you do this, however, do not
forget and step forward into the works
of the piano or set the pail on the
Strings while You are at work. After
you have been at work for few mo-
ments, and got your sleeves well filed
with whitewash, you may empty them
backinto the pail, thus saving the suF-
plus. which otherwise might be wasted.
Care should be used in scattering oil
pain tings and bric-a- brac on the walls.
Some oil paintings Look better spat-
tered with whitewash, while others do
not. Fer this reason keen discrimi-
nation is necessary, and every man
may not succeed with the brush.
| Whitewash may be removed from the
eye by the judicious use of muristic
acid, which cuts the lime and purifies
the eye itself, removing any animal
substance also that may have fallen
into the socket, including the eye itself.
Maple sugar may be made by squeez-
ing the juice out of the maple tree, and
bCiling.it down to about the consistency
of the spring poem. The maple flavor
is otiniured by the taste, and does uot
interfere with the popularity of this
justly celebrated dope for the hot pan
cake. Much maple syrup and sugar
grow in Vermont, and l have often
wondered what becomes of this health
ful beverage. Why maple syrup, made
from the juice of the maple tree, should
not find its way into the channels Of
trade is more than can understand.
A cheap and tasty window curtain
may be made of the finest batiste, cuS
the proper length, and then decorated
with painted flowers. Most any lady
can readily paint these flowers in any
design, or at least great many seem to
think they can. The flowers may be
any variety which. fancy may dictate,
such as cern-fowers, daisies, pond
1 lilies or foFget-me-nots, and, if they do
not look just right, thew may be erased
while still green by boiling the curtains
In g. solution of benzine and turpentine,
say two parts of the former to ninety
eight of the latter.
A design to which my attention has
been recently called consists of unique,
Iimprovised flower, composed by a
young lady who is destined to make her
mark sorae day unless someone inter
| feres. She has already made her marx
in several pisces, IN fact; but these
flowers Certainly deserve something
more, than a mere passing notice. They
are not copied from the monotonous
and tedious uniformity so much affected
lin nature, but tie stand out by them
tselyes and attract the attention at once,
because of their bold originality. In
stead of copying nature, and thus
becoming tiresome, she has constructed
( a flower that Is cross between rose
cancer and ginger cooky. 1t grows
Ion ,perpe6icular stem that looks like q
dark green hat rack, with buds, on it
/ that remind the enraptured spectator
of an aggravated felon On dark red
thumb, Just peeping out of a. pale
green, Weather-beat bandage..
Nothing so bold in conception or SO
utterly free from conventionality has
come within my range of observation
for years. The inf1ammatoTy Condi-
ton of the blossom itself, the bold and
mathematically per pendicular pose Of
the stem, and the early stages OF erup
ton visible in the complexion of the
bud, challenge the admiration OF the
philanthropist and the board Of health.
It stands out as a work of art, alone
and safe from imitation. 1t certainly
has never been successfully initiated by
nature, and l do not think it eyer viii
De. While nature loves TO give US
freaks now and then. may safely say
that she will never farnish Us with
flower like tbis. flower that looks as
though it had been nailed on the parent
stem with shIngle nails, while the
foliage. 1t would seem, was cut out OF
sheet iron and riveted to the curtain by
the hand of a master. Il is one Of
those meek-eyed, fragile blossoms OF
the vale, that You could successfully
use in beating out mans braln.-Bni
Nye in Boston Globe.